Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Quote by Robert Burns

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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the...

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the...

To see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

To see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my...

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my...

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we...

Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we...

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have...

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have...

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever

Suspense is worst than disappointment

Suspense is worst than disappointment

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard...

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard...

I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I...

I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I...

Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.

Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.